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A lacquer Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetics Box]
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A lacquer Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetics Box]

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

細節
A lacquer Sumiakabako [Large Red-Cornered Cosmetics Box]
Edo Period (18th Century)
Of red-lacquered cloth over wood, the top and side panels with a black lacquered ground decorated in gold hiramaki-e with mon and geometric design, the inner tray in black lacquer, the cordfittings in gilt metal, slight old damage
9½ (24.3cm.) high
來源
Michael Tomkinson
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

Boxes of this type, which first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century, are called sumiakabako [boxes with red corners]. Although their use was not strictly prescribed, it seems that they usually held cosmetics, and they regularly formed part of konrie chodo [formal wedding trousseaux], see Koike Tomio, Hatsune no chodo ni tsuite [On the Hatsune no chodo], in Tokugawa Art Museum, Hatsune no chodo [Hatsune maki-e lacquer furnishings] (Nagoya, 1985), p. 111-121, no. 120.